Mothtown
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Including illustrations from bestselling illustrator and political cartoonist, Chris Riddell, Mothtown is the unsettling and eerie new novel by Caroline Hardaker, perfect for fans of Midsommar and Rivers Solomon's Sorrowland.
As a child, David could tell something was wrong.
The kids in school spread rumours of missing people, nests of bones and bodies appearing in the mountains. His sister refused to share what she knew, and his parents turned off the TV whenever he entered the room. Protecting him, they said.
Worse, the only person who shared anything at all with him, his beloved grandpa, disappeared without a goodbye. Mum and Dad said he was dead. But what about the exciting discovery Grandpa had been working on for his whole life?
Now 26, David lives alone and takes each day as it comes. When a strange package arrives on his doorstep, one with instructions not to leave the Earth, a new world is unfurled before David, one he’s been trying to suppress for years…
Blending horror and literary fiction, Mothtown is the strange new novel from celebrated author Caroline Hardaker.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Hardaker (Composite Creatures) blurs the line between fantasy and reality—and between literary and speculative fiction—in this devastating, mind-bending tale told in split timelines. At 10 years old, David lives in a world full of mysterious happenings: people go missing constantly, his grandfather is researching things he doesn't understand, and the adults around him endlessly discuss the mysterious so-called "Modern Problem." When his family tells David that his grandfather has died, David suspects that his grandfather is actually one of the missing, thus launching a yearslong interest in using the man's left-behind research to find him. Years in the future, an adult David journeys through a mountainous environment pursued by unknown assailants as he attempts to find a door to another world. As these two timelines begin to integrate, how David arrived in this mysterious future becomes clear in a story alight with shocking twists and bizarre imagery. What begins as an eerie fantastical mystery evolves into a far more meaningful tale, interrogating mental illness, grief, and the deep loneliness and isolation of modern life. Readers will have no idea where this story is going, but Hardaker's gorgeous prose and confident plotting ensure that every step taken toward the answer is a fascinating one.
